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Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

U.S. Bombing of Japan

politically expedient to do so; Russia was about to enter the war, and Truman felt that dropping the bomb would show the Russians ...

Not by Bread Alone by Melissa Caldwell

the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...

Investigationg the L'Ambiance Plaza Collapse

might have happened on that fateful day, it seems that lift-slab construction is a good part of the reason for the collapse. At le...

Collapse of HIH Insurance Ltd. and the Effects on Small Businesses in Australia

only a week before it was completed. Chief executive Ray Williams raised the issue with board members over dinner, telling the gr...

Major Themes of 'The Chrysanthemums' by John Steinbeck

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

The Balkans

that have been conducive to even more terrorist activity. The twentieth century both began and ended with bloodshed in the ...

2 Trade Textbooks on Investment and Mathematics Reviewed

view this formula as an effective means of reducing vulnerability to the financial insecurity which so frequently results in the r...

Soviet Union's Downfall and Reports by American Intelligence

drop in performance indicators, might strengthen conservative opposition. Such trends, coupled with the continuing nationality tu...

Robots' Limitations and Scientific Method

process of deduction occurs, reasoning progresses from the specific to the general. In reality both processes are important to th...

Analysis of Enron

days, compared to how they would become (Braquet, 2002). Skilling focused Enrons core business, that of buying a commodity and sel...

Europe's Witch Hunts

often in gender (Davis, 1999). It is widely recognised today the majority of those tried for witchcraft were innocent of all charg...

Electronic Commerce and the Crash of the Dot.coms

the nation in thrall during the mid- to-late 1990s. But instead of looking back on the crash with regret, may experts today believ...

Issues and Future of the World Trade Organization

himself in 1999 at the WTO talks in Seattle, when he was quoted as saying that high labor standards should be mandatory for trade-...

Nietzsche's The Collapse of Western Metaphysics in the Areas of Reason, Morality, and Religion and Underground Man of Fyodor Dostoevsky

understandable given the conditions of the time. He opposed the rigid moral constraints of the time inflicted by the ruling bourg...

1919 to 1942's New World Order's Rise and Fall

powerhouses - Great Britain, France, and now the United States. Through the plan, the U.S. and Europe would dominate the global e...

Globalization, Collapse of Communism, and the New World Order

In five pages this paper examines the Cold War, globalization, and communism's collapse in this conceptual view of the 'New World ...

Outline of Procopius of Caesarea and Hagia Sophia Collapse Applied to Reconstructing the Towers of the World Trade Center

the immediate and integrating architectural elements into the infinite. Further, Rauss argued that the development of architectur...

Economic Relations and the Economy of Argentina

Were the central bank of, say Ecuador, to fix the exchange rate of the Ecuador currency directly to the value of the US dollar, pr...

Enron's Conflict Management

Sadly, those pursuing the win-lose scenario often overlook simpler approaches in which everyone wins, thereby avoiding further pro...

Economic Collapse of Argentina and Role of MERCOSUR

economic collapse. Argentina has suffered many types of economic angst in the past, and flat exports, decreased household demand ...

The Central Reasons for the Onset of the First World War

history who have sought to elevate themselves by conquering others, including not only Napoleon, but also Hitler, Genghis Khan, Iv...

Capitalism and its Destruction

are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative." It does seem to be the case that for example the Republican party in the Unit...

History of the Berlin Wall

the flow of emigrants leaving East Germany (Harrison 9). Sources that have become accessible since the fall of the Soviet Union sh...

Investment Banker Jay Cooke

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...

Trading Practices, the Barings Group, and Nick Leeson

As he has been pointed out in much of the financial media that has covered this issue, the derivative instruments that ended up ca...

Enigma of 1989 by Jacques Levesque

of the U.S.S.R. and what it all means. One is left with a sense that what occurred in the headlines is really more than the defeat...

Yugoslavian State Breakdown

Yugoslavia). Although the fighting stopped for the most part, there was no effort made for the various parties to actually resolv...

4 Accounting and International Finance Dissertation Topics

the news circulated of such a monumental occurrence, there was immediate reaction from several societal sectors, including small b...

Why America Should Go to War with Iraq

happened, Saddam had never been properly dealt with during the Gulf War that occurred more than a decade ago. Since that time, the...